Claudio
Masculine · “lame”
Claudio is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 5,475 boys against 27 girls since 1880.
Claudio is the Italian and Spanish form of Claudius, a Roman family name that describes a limp — Roman naming was unsentimental about physical description.
How old is the name Claudio?
Claudio first appears in US birth records in 1909 — 116 years ago. The typical Claudio alive today was born around 1988, making them about 37 years old. About 4,600 people named Claudio are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Claudio most popular?
Claudio peaked in 1967, reaching #893 nationally. Today it ranks #3658, 2,765 places below that high. See the whole 1967 chart.
Where it comes from
From claudus to Claudio
The story of Claudio
The Claudii were one of Rome's oldest patrician families and gave the empire an emperor whose own limp made the name's meaning uncomfortably apt. It survived into Christian use through early saints and passed into Italian and Spanish as Claudio. Shakespeare gave it to two characters. It has been well used in Italy, Spain and Latin America and reaches American records with families from all of them.
Meaning
lame, limping
From Latin claudus, lame; the gens Claudia took its name from an ancestor so described, and Roman families were named for such things without embarrassment — Cicero means chickpea and Naso means big-nosed.
How the name formed
- claudus
- Claudius
- Claudio
Related forms: Claudio · Claude · Cláudio · Claude
Pronouncing Claudio
KLOW-dee-oh
Three syllables, first stressed, the first rhyming with how. Every letter is sounded.
Nicknames for Claudio
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1909
- Most boys named
- 2002111 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #893reached in 1967
- Change vs 2023
- −45.5%30 in 2025, from 55
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Claudio in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Claudio in Spanish — same name
- Claude in French — same name
- Cláudio in Portuguese — same name
- Claude in English — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Claudios among us
people named Claudio are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 56,936 born in 2025 was named Claudio
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Harrell test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Claudio's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Harrell climbed just as high around 1940, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Harrell's path sketches the road Claudio is walking now.
Claudio sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Claudio is headed
Claudio should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Claudio beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Claudio in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented Roman family name with two thousand years of continuous record.
- Every letter is said, so Italian and Spanish speakers read it correctly at once.
- Claude stands beside it as a familiar English and French cousin.
- The meaning is a physical description and not a flattering one.
- The emperor of the name has a complicated reputation.
- English readers may say KLAW-dee-oh rather than KLOW-dee-oh.
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Frequently asked
- How many Claudios are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,600 people named Claudio are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Claudio in 2025?
- Claudio ranks #3658 among US boy names in 2025, with 30 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Claudio?
- About 1 in every 56,936 US boys born in 2025 was named Claudio — 30 in all.
- Will my child share the name Claudio with classmates?
- Claudio will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Claudio
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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